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Bishop Street Methodist Church - Presents contact information, schedule of services, maps, appeal, architectural history and organ.
Glenfield Methodist Church - Includes news, timetable of events, history and preachers. Part of the Leicester (West) circuit.
Christchurch Clarendon Park - Baptist and Methodist local ecumenical partnership. Overview, aims, activities, services, projects and photos.
Epworth Methodist Church - History, mission statement, location, organisations, diary, activities, rotas and worship. Part of the Leicester (West) circuit.
Sexuality Matters, You Matter - Campaign to discover how the city of Leicester can better serve the needs of its lesbian, gay and bisexual community.
Melbourne Hall - Christian evangelical free church in Highfields Leicester. Information about religious services, community projects and clubs and societies supported by the church.
Leicester Wildlife Hospital - A voluntary organisation dedicated to the care of injured and orphaned animals. Includes latest news, applications for membership, sponsorship and donations, and contact details.
St Andrew's Parish Church - Information and history with photos of this Aylestone church.
Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia. -- Charles Schultz Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and grie Immature love says: "I love you because I need you." Mature love says: "I need you because I love you." -- Erich Fromm "... What good are dreams if they come true?" (Frederick Exley, A Fan's Notes) Every major horror of history was committed in the name of an altruistic motive. -- Ayn Rand Society and Culture It's not as great a day for the bride as she thinks. She's not marrying the best man. -- Anonymous Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it. -- Josephus Daniels "College professors are the people who can't hack it in the real world." (William Thomas) Society and Culture "If you're in a bad situation, don't worry it'll change. If you're in a good situation, don't worry it'll change." (John A. Simone Sr.) The mathematician lives long and lives young; the wings of his soul do not early drop off, nor do its pores become clogged with the earthy particles blown from the dusty highways of vulgar life. -- ARDOR, n. The quality that distinguishes love without knowledge. -- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 "Great spirits have always faced voilent protest from mediocre minds." (Albert Einstein) You can pay attention to the fact, in which case you'll probably become a mathematician, or you can ignore it, in which case you'll probably become a physicist. -- Len Evans, professor, Northwestern Society and Culture [You reporters] should have printed what he meant, not what he said. -- Earl Bush, press aide to Richard Daley I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world. -- Albert Einstein The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech. -- George Bernard Shaw Society and Culture Whatever you are, be a good one. -- Abraham Lincoln cannot imagine any condition which would cause this ship to founder. Modern shipbuilding has gone beyond that. -- E. I. Smith, Captain of the Titanic The days just before marriage are like a snappy introduction to a tedious book. Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded. -- Virginia Woolf Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not. -- Aldous Huxley Society and Culture "Have you ever fed your pocket and starved your soul?" (Ivana Santilli, Too Deep) You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do. -- Henry Ford After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations. -- H. L. Mencken, on Shakespeare Society and Culture Jealousy is the only vice that gives no pleasure. -- Anonymous A conclusion is the place where you got tired thinking. -- Martin H. Fischer "Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throat." (Martin H. Fischer) Question: Ted Kennedy: "Where was George?" Answer: Dry, sober, and at home with his wife "Commit yourself to quality from day one ... it's better to do nothing at all than to do something badly." (Mark McCormack) Society and Culture Love: An obsessive delusion that is cured by marriage. "The meeting of two personalites is like the contact of two chemical substances. If there is any reaction, both are transformed." (Carl Gustav Jung) May you live happily ever after with a poor, ugly, shrewish wife. Society and Culture The gods too are fond of a joke. - Aristotle When we treat man as he is, we make him worse than he is; when we treat him as if he already were what he potentially could be, we make him what he should be. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe I begin by taking. I shall find scholars later to demonstrate my perfect right. - Frederick (II) the Great I hate it in friends when they come too late to help. -- Euripides If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts. -- Albert Einstein Society and Culture Twenty years fron now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so. - Bertrand Russell Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction. -- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Society and Culture Just buy a box of popcorn and a Coca-Cola and sit back and watch. -- James Carville, Clinton advisor, offering advice for Democrats on the term-limits vote in the House When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell, leap. -- Cynthia H "Frank and explicit; that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and to confuse the minds of others." (Benjamin Disraeli, Sybil) "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) blah "Some of the worlds greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible. unattributed" (Anonymous) Society and Culture Insurance is like marriage. You pay, pay, pay, and you never get anything back. -- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Intelligence has nothing to do with politics. -- Londo Molari It is never too late to be what you might have been. -- George Eliot Society and Culture I am returning this otherwise good typing paper to you because someone has printed gibberish all over it and put your name at the top. -- English Professor, Ohio University Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge. -- John Wesley Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives. -- John Stuart Mill Creativity is allowing oneself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep. -- Scott Adams, The Dilbert Principle "Fake is as old as the Eden tree." (George Orson Welles) Society and Culture "Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking." (H. Jackson Brown (Jr.) Jealousy is the only vice that gives no pleasure. -- Anonymous Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there. -- Josh Billings Society and Culture Computers can figure out all kinds of problems, except the things in the world that just don't add up. -- Anon For the majority of People, smoking has a beneficial effect. -- Dr. Ian G. Macdonald, Los Angeles surgeon, quoted in Newsweek , Nov.18th 1963. The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains.The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires. -- William Arthur Ward You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover's arms can only come later when you're sure they won't laugh if you trip. -- Jonathan Carroll, Outside I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally. -- W. C. Fields Society and Culture Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door and just visit now and then. -- Katharine Hepburn A little girl at the wedding afterwards asked her mother why the bride changed her mind. "What do you mean?" responded her mother. "Well, she went down the aisle with one man, and came back with ano "Beauty without expression is boring." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Society and Culture "The masses are far more likely to believe a big lie than several small ones." (Adolf Hitler) Oregon Democratic Senate candidate Tom Bruggere, in describing his support for comprehensive health care during a candidates' forum, said he supported "erection-to- resurrection" coverage. He later a Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness. -- Madame de Rieux Women: If they're not turning down your proposals for marriage, they're accusing you of suspicious behavior in the women's lingerie changing room. -- Cliff Clavin, character on "Cheers", U.S. Televi "Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget." (G. Randolf) Society and Culture A woman's always younger than a man of equal years. -Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you. -- John-Paul Sartre Nothing average ever stood as a monument to progress. When progress is looking for a partner it doesn't turn to those who believe they are only average. It turns instead to those who are forever sea Society and Culture "Fear is the dark room where the Devil develops his negatives." (Gary Busey) English Law prohibits a man from marrying his mother-in-law. This is our idea of useless legislation. Is there life before death? -- Belfast Graffito A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy. -- Friedrich Nietzsche We live at a time when man believes himself fabulously capable of creation, but he does not know what to create. -- Jose Ortega y Gasset Society and Culture He who awaits much can expect little. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez My wife says if I go fishing one more time she's going to leave me. Gosh, I'm going to miss her. Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? They have the same enemy-- the mother. -- Claudette Colbert Society and Culture Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending. -- Anonymous The weirder you're going to behave, the more normal you should look. It works in reverse, too. When I see a kid with three or four rings in his nose, I know there is absolutely nothing extraordinary Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work. -- Aristotle There is nothing that can be said by mathematical symbols and relations which cannot also be said by words. The converse, however, is false. Much that can be and is said by words cannot successfully Church is only society on earth that exists for the benefit of non-members. -- William Temple Society and Culture Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia. -- Charles Schultz That is the best -- to laugh with someone because you think the same things are funny. -- Gloria Vanderbilt Live out of your imagination, not your history. -- Stephen Covey Society and Culture
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